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I had no idea that voting for Obama was going to be like voting for Gore except that my man would win but he would not be my man. I mean he would become president and the world would acknowledge him as such but he really was not the president of the country I want to live in.Once again the failure to communicate my sense of betrayal and injustice is causing the nightmares to return. When Bush was president, i saw in my dreams, his bust on tv talking to us while from the side of the screen a figure appeared to cover over his face, and it was Hitler.
So powerful was that image and it happened more than once I could not help but ask what this was? Beyond the pure distrust I had of the man, it had to do with the ways in which an imperial presidency was beginning to erode our political discourse. No more was there a time to talk; people yelled at each other and then the other awful thing happened, the people who populated Wall Street became angrier and angrier the richer they became.
I had dreams of them with their hands in my pockets because they could not get enough money no matter what the size of their accounts were.
And then, in some ways the worst blow of all, the amount of death and destruction that kept being reported no matter which way I turned. Life had no value in many ways and it was becoming more difficult to swallow the amount of assassinations, train wrecks, drone attacks, suicides, mass shootings, etc.
I had hoped that Obama's election would ease the amount of distress we had to endure while Bush was president. But now it is starting again and there will be no let up again.
Time to think about what the real strategies can be. I have no answers at the moment, just hundreds of questions.
